------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------- %{ /************************************************************************ NAME wingding.l DESCRIPTION A lex program to assist in investigating "secret messages" in the Wingdings font of Microsoft Windows. Theory: if we generate enough of these and flood the media with them, the public will eventually catch on to the silliness of the whole exercise. To make, do lex wingding.l mv lex.yy.c wingding.c cc wingding.c -o wingding BUGS This is a fast, sloppy hack. The problem doesn't deserve anything better. AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond , 2 May 1992 ****************************************************************************/ %} %% [Aa] {(void) printf("peace-sign-hand ");} [Bb] {(void) printf("hand-\"okay\"-sign ");} [Cc] {(void) printf("thumbs-up ");} [Dd] {(void) printf("thumbs-down ");} [Ee] {(void) printf("pointing-left ");} [Ff] {(void) printf("pointing-right ");} [Gg] {(void) printf("pointing-up ");} [Hh] {(void) printf("pointing-down ");} [Ii] {(void) printf("palm-forward ");} [Jj] {(void) printf("happy-face ");} [Kk] {(void) printf("indifferent-face ");} [Ll] {(void) printf("frowning-face ");} [Mm] {(void) printf("bomb-with-fuse-lit ");} [Nn] {(void) printf("poison-symbol ");} [Oo] {(void) printf("rectangular-flag ");} [Pp] {(void) printf("triangular-flag ");} [Qq] {(void) printf("airplane ");} [Rr] {(void) printf("sun ");} [Ss] {(void) printf("raindrop ");} [Tt] {(void) printf("snowflake ");} [Uu] {(void) printf("cross ");} [Vv] {(void) printf("shaded-cross ");} [Ww] {(void) printf("fancy-cross ");} [Xx] {(void) printf("Maltese-cross ");} [Yy] {(void) printf("star-of-David ");} [Zz] {(void) printf("crescent-and-star ");} . {ECHO;} %% static int yywrap() { return(-1); } main() { while (yylex() > 0) continue; } /* wingding.l ends here */ ------------------------------- CUT HERE ------------------------------------- And now, more Wingdings decodings from the Paranoids for a Better Tomorrow: BSA (Boy Scouts of America): hand-"okay"-sign raindrop peace-sign-hand Obviously these are secret instructions that it's OK to spit on peaceniks. FSU (Former Soviet Union): pointing-right raindrop cross God's gonna flood the commies out till they convert! FBI: pointing-right hand-"okay"-sign palm-forward The FBI is OK and protects you. However, the use of the Hindu palm-forward mudra for "protection" may indicate that our stalwart G-Men gave been Corrupted by Foreign Influences. CIA: thumbs-up palm-forward peace-sign-hand Everything will be OK if we can just stop the damn hippies. NBC: poison-symbol hand-"okay"-sign thumbs-up We'll rot your brain, but it's OK. Really. Think positive. CBS: thumbs-up hand-"okay"-sign raindrop We'll make you so happy you'll cry. ABC: peace-sign-hand hand-"okay"-sign thumbs-up Gad! This network's been infiltrated by those damn hippies! All hail Discordia! -- Eric S. Raymond = eric@snark.thyrsus.com (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) In article ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes: Based on an earlier post that listed the characters (I, personally, am avoiding Windows to prevent defenestration ;-) KIBO = neutralface handhalt handok flag. This must mean that it is not okay to feel neutral but you must wave the flag. We all must surrender to Kibo? Now THAT'S a satanic conspiracy if I ever saw one... -- "It is a pity that you Autobots die so | Robert Menke easily... otherwise one might get a | rgm@cory.berkeley.edu sense of satisfaction..." | ...!ucbvax!cory!rgm Thanks for posting this. I had a lot of fun playing with this while I was waiting for my downloads to finish. For example, I came up with: IBM: palm-forward hand-"okay"-sign bomb-with-fuse-lit Wait...it's supposed to crash. INTEL: palm-forward poison-symbol snowflake pointing-left frowning-face Hey! Use our cool 80x86 chips, they're backwards compatible...uh... even with the 8086. MAC: bomb-with-fuse-lit peace-sign-hand thumbs-up Hippies with a bomb?! Right...it must be good...uh...whatever you say. ATARI: peace-sign-hand snowflake peace-sign-hand sun palm-forward Yikes! Even more hippies flogging the coolest thing this side of the sun. In the end, you'll wait for something else. ...I'm just having problems interpreting the rectangular-flag in: MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop In article epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang) writes: >...I'm just having problems interpreting the rectangular-flag in: > > MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop It crashes so often it could make you cry, but it isn't square to cry. ICHTHUS (Greek for "Fish", but an early code word for Christ) ? palm-forward thumbs-up pointing-down snowflake pointing-down cross raindrop It's ok to push him and put him down, it's cool that he was buried, crucified and spit on. HELP: pointing-down pointing-left frowning-face triangular-flag Leftists will go to hell because they frown upon God. In article epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang) writes: MSDOS: bomb-with-fuse-lit raindrop thumbs-down rectangular-flag raindrop How about "Microsoft are anarchists who piss on the flag" as a loose interpretation? Nick Here's some more... DEC thumbs-down pointing-left thumbs-up "Problem ? Call DECdirect. No problem." BILL GATES hand-"okay"-sign palm-forward frowning-face frowning-face pointing-up peace-sign-hand snowflake pointing-left raindrop "I'm a nice guy and I want to be your friend ! No ? No ! Up yours, man ! I'm so cool I could cry." APPLE COMPUTER peace-sign-hand triangular-flag triangular-flag frowning-face pointing-left thumbs-up rectangular-flag bomb-with-fuse-lit triangular-flag cross snowflake pointing-left sun "We replaced the hippies with a bunch of squares we thought were OK, but who suck big-time. God ! Now all the cool guys are at Sun." NT (New Technology) poison-symbol snowflake "Will kill your system, but it's really cool. Honest." AFC (alt.folklore.computers) peace-sign-hand pointing-right thumbs-up "A bunch of hippies who will solve everything." STF [These ones should probably go to alt.conspiracy... JFK happy-face pointing-right indifferent-face LBJ frowning-face hand-"okay"-sign happy-face sfleming@cs.hw.ac.uk ...ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!sfleming > On 30 Apr 1992 05:48:27 GMT, shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) said: UNC = "Christian cross" - "skull and bones" - "thumbs up" kill all the Christians at UNC? Peter Simpson, KA1AXY voice: (508) 870-9837 Data General Corp. fax: (508) 898-4212 4400 Computer Dr. E236 INTERNET: pzs@ficus.webo.dg.com [128.221.228.82] Westboro, MA 01580 #include